Who Helped Make Deepsky 2000 Possible

Deepsky 2000 has been a cooperative effort among many people.   No single person including myself can take credit for creating this software.  My goal has been and always will be,  to create useful affordable astronomy software in my spare time.   I consider Deepsky 2000 to be a hobby, not a business.   I have a family and a 40 hour per week job in addition to working on the software.  I am able to personally communicate with every user on a personal level to answer all questions they may have.  Many of Deepsky's enhancements have come from its registered users.  

•	Wife Tracy and son Zachary who have lost precious time with me during the programming and testing of Deepsky 2000.
•	Frederick Pilcher (1990 Pilcher) for inspiring me to create the original Deepsky 2000 software in 1989.
•	Dean Williams, who created the star charts used in Deepsky 2000.  What a great addition!
•	Raymond Bruton for helping me clean up the Deepsky 2000 database and for beta testing the software.
•	Patrick Chevalley (Cartes du Ciel) for allowing Deepsky 2000 ver 2 to interface to his excellent software.
•	William Anderson for supplying the new Super Tycho star catalog for inclusion in Deepsky 2000 ver 2
•	Chris Marriot (Sky Map Pro) for providing eyepiece and telescope data as well as other information.
•	FITSview is provided courtesy of the author, Bill Cotton NRAO/AUI.
•	Thomas Kral, for providing 400+ CCD images of NGC objects.
•	Jason Ware, for allowing us to use some of his Messier images.
•	Lyle Kolze, for letting me use his LX-200 Telescope to add support for it in the software.
•	Space Telescope Science Institute for allowing me to redistribute the GSC version 1.3
•	Bob Denny (ACP LX-200 Control Software) for working with me to integrate ACP into Deepsky 2000 and providing Deepsky's new Night Vision mode.
•	To all Registered users who have spent hours testing and debugging Deepsky software.
•	To various astronomical publications by Jean Meeus and Peter-Duffett Smith as well as Sky & Telescope  and Astronomy Magazine.
•	To the CDS data center for allowing us to use a variety of astronomical databases.
•	To Mike Ricker for getting me started in Visual Basic programming.
•	Tim Harincar and  Jere Kahanpää for SkyRover Sketches website integration.

In my quest to develop this software, I have met quite a few people.  Deepsky 2000 exists today because of the willingness of others to contribute to the ongoing development of the software for the pure enjoyment of astronomy.

Steven S Tuma
stuma@inwave.com